Diana Krall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
-- Diana Krall

#Music #Musician #Being The Best
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
-- Diana Krall

#Song #People #Giving
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
-- Diana Krall

#Music #Missions
Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.
-- Diana Krall

#Music #Song #Feelings
When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.
-- Diana Krall

#Cities #Names #Radio
Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers...
-- Diana Krall

#Voice #Singers #Tradition
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
-- Diana Krall

#Character #Stories #Sometimes
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
-- Diana Krall

#Broken Heart #Song #Creating
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.
-- Diana Krall

#Writing #Mean #Artist
I always wonder what drives us as Artists.
-- Diana Krall

#Ambition #Artist #Wonder
I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.
-- Diana Krall

#Song #Rivers #Might
I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.
-- Diana Krall

#Thinking #Uptight #Prove
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.
-- Diana Krall

#Character #Track #Singing
It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.
-- Diana Krall

#Piano #Honor #Privilege
The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!
-- Diana Krall

#Mom #Mad #Advice
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
-- Diana Krall

#Song #Redneck #Together
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
-- Diana Krall

#Music #People #Figures
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
-- Diana Krall

#Music #Song #Writing
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
-- Diana Krall

#Art #Imagination #Creeps
I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.
-- Diana Krall

#Fun #Character #Miserable

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